Obama is less of a person than an image -- a brand. People see whatever they want as they do on a Rorschach test. But does anyone really know him?

In fact, he is:

* An empty suit.* A man with no birth certificate.* A man who was deserted in childhood by his biologicalfather.* A man whose birth records, both in the United Statesand Kenya, are sealed by government order.* A man whose childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis,spied on U.S. military installations in Hawaii for theSoviet Union, edited a communist newspaper, authoredpornographic novels, and wrote poetry in praise ofJoseph Stalin.* A man mentored by and still supported by radical Muslims.* A man who promised transparency in government, but hasspent over a million dollars in legal fees hidinginformation that would determine his eligibility to bePresident.* A former drug user.* A man whose academic records are sealed fromkindergarten through law school.* A man who arrived in New York in June of 1981 withoutenough money to get a hotel room, but one month laterflew to Indonesia and Pakistan.* Why did he go?* Who paid his expenses?* A man who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal forU.S. citizens to do so. So what country's passport didhe use?* A man whose Law School Admission Test scores andgrades at Columbia University are known to have beenmediocre, but was admitted to Harvard Law Schoolthrough the intervention of a Saudi named Khalidal-Mansour.* A law review editor who never published an article inany law review.* A lawyer with no significant accomplishments in thelaw and no reputation in the legal community.* A former State and U.S. Senator, who never authored apiece of legislation.* A disciple of the Marxist Saul Alinsky.* A product of the Chicago political machine -- the mostcorrupt political organization in America.* A man who selects Marxists, corrupt politicians andcriminals as his close political associates andpersonal friends.* A man whose presidential candidacy was endorsed by theDemocratic Socialists of America, the SocialistInternational and the Workers International League.* A man lauded for the literary brilliance of twomemoirs, both of which were ghostwritten by others.* A so-called Christian who says that knowing when humanlife begins is "above his pay-grade," but somehowknows that abortion is permissible at any stage.* A man who thinks "waterboarding" is immoral, but thatpartial-birth abortion is moral.* A man who publicly laments slavery in America -- whichwas abolished 150 years ago -- but praises Islam,which still practices both slavery and the sexualmutilation of young girls.* A man who speaks endlessly about helping the lessfortunate, but gives almost none of his sizeableincome to charity -- not even to his half-brother, whois living in squalor in Kenya.* A man who had the most left-wing voting record in theUnited State Senate, but was predicted by the press to"govern from the middle."* A man who has never created a job, met a payroll, oreven operated a lemonade stand, but wants to tellDetroit how to make cars.* A President who has never before served as anexecutive in either the private or the public sector.* A Commander-in-Chief who doesn't know how to shoot arifle, throw a hand-grenade, drive a tank, fly a planeor con a ship.* A Commander-in-Chief who has publicly divulged some ofour nation's most important intelligence secrets.* A man who has been put in charge of the largesteconomic engine that ever existed, but has neverinvested in the stock market and admits totalignorance of it.* A President who says that science will guide hisadministration, but has no education in the sciences.* A man who is proficient in reading what is written forhim on a teleprompter, but jerks and stammers his waythrough any off-the-cuff speaking.* A man whose health records are sealed from childhoodto the present day.* A man whose educational records are sealed fromchildhood through law school.* A man who spent 20 years in a church whose pastorespouses Marxist Liberation Theology,anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Semitism,but claims he never heard his pastor utteranti-American and anti-Semitic statements.* A man who added more to the National Debt in 100 daysthan all other Presidents did in the past 220 years,yet feels qualified to lecture Americans about "fiscalresponsibility".* A man who publicly expressed disdain for the U.S.Constitution on a Chicago radio station because it limitedthe government's ability to "redistribute wealth."* The first American President to bow before a foreignhead of state -- a Muslim dictator.* A man who sits and listens submissively while hiscountry is castigated by Daniel Ortega -- a Communistthug whose own daughter accused him of raping her.* A narcissist who gave the Queen of England a presentfrom the United States -- an iPod containingrecordings of his own speeches.* A man, who wanted Americans to ignore his Muslim nameduring his election campaign, yet boasts of his Muslimname when he travels to Muslim countries.* A man who can name hundreds of America's shortcomings,yet none of its great accomplishments.* A President who claims the moral high ground byclosing Gitmo yet supports the transfer of terrorsuspects to countries where horrific torture is certain.* A President who scoffed at being called a socialistyet acted to nationalize the auto industry, thebanking industry, and the insurance industry . . . andnow seeks to nationalize the healthcare industry.* A President who violates private property rights, thesanctity of contracts, and the rule of law -- threeessential principles that go back over a thousandyears in the Common Law tradition.* A man who promised 95% of all Americans a tax cut, butis increasing taxes on 100% of the population throughinflation -- the cruelest tax of all.* A lawyer who represented ACORN -- an organization nowindicted in several states for voter fraud -- whosestated goal is to get as many people on welfare aspossible in order to destroy our financial system.* A President who cheated GM's bondholders by givingtheir property to the UAW in a political payoff.* An American President who frequently criticizes hisown country when speaking in foreign countries, butnever praises America's generosity, goodness orgreatness.* A President whose Secretary of the Treasury cheated onhis taxes -- as did several other appointees andadvisors.* A President who, despite the current federal debt of100 trillion dollars, wants to add the greatest debtever by nationalizing healthcare.* A President who scoffs at being called a socialist,yet has appointed 28 "Czars" to circumventconstitutional government, including:* A "Science Czar" who has advocated compulsoryabortions for American women and the "surrender ofsovereignty" to a "comprehensive Planetary Regime."* A self-professed communist as his "Green Jobs Czar."* A "Pay Czar" to regulate the pay of corporate executives.* A President who swore an oath to "preserve, protectand defend the constitution from all enemies, foreignand domestic," yet has nominated a domestic enemy ofthe Constitution to the Supreme Court.* A President whose Homeland Security Chief classifiedpro-lifers, veterans, and supporters of traditionalmarriage as terrorists.* A President who stood silent while the Iraniangovernment hacked unarmed protestors to death withaxes, because it was an internal matter, but freelyoffers his opinions about the internal affairs ofIsrael and Honduras.* A President who decreed that true acts of terrorismmust now be described as "man-made disasters."* A President who cracks hurtful jokes about SpecialOlympians.* A President who refused to intercept or inspect aNorth Korean ship virtually certain to be carryingWeapons of Mass Destruction to Burma.* A President who wants to cancel all missile defenseswhile rogue nations are developing long-rangeballistic missiles.* An American President who blames the violence inMexico on America.* A Commander in Chief who claims to have been unawarethat Air Force One was taken on a terrifying,low-level photo-op over Manhattan.* A President who berates American CEO's for flying inprivate planes at private expense on company business,but whose wife spends hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars flying to Paris for a shopping spree.* A President who promised a transparent administration,but requires all questions be screened before"impromptu" appearances.* A man who freely admitted that his energy policies aredesigned to bankrupt the American coal industry.* A President who has presided over the loss of 14.7million jobs and whose "energy policy" will cause theloss of another 1 million jobs.* A President whose "energy policy" will increase theaverage American's utility bills by over $2,000 a yearin the middle of the Great Recession.* A man about whom liberal journalist Tom Brokaw said,"There's a lot about him we don't know." . . . justone week before the election.

The vast majority of Americans do not know who he is, but someone surely does. Someone paid for his travel expenses to Pakistan and Indonesia. Someone engineered legal challenges to all of his election opponents for the State Senate and had them disqualified. Someone straightened and leveled his path to the U.S. Senate when a Democrat Judge made public the child custody records of his Republican opponent. When he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate, someone arranged for him to speak at the 2004 Democrat National Convention.

Someone saw to it that all of his records were sealed, both at home and abroad. Someone assembled the massive organization for his run for the Presidency. Someone knows all about him.

Is it possible they've been recirculating this same forward since the late nineteenth century?

"Who is Theodore NO MIDDLE NAME Roosevelt? Can he produce a birth certificate?He was supposedly a sickly child and yet he took up boxing. Are we expected to believe that?!"

"Who is STEPHEN Grover Cleveland and why does he use his middle name instead of his ethnic first name? What do we know about this stranger from the wild frontier in Ohio?He claims to be Christian but he was named after the pastor of a PRESBYTERIAN church.He's sexually incontinent and may have fathered a child on a common woman."

On the late British Charles Spurgeon, I think there is a quotation missing from the top of this forward.

According to other versions of this e-mail (thanks Google), there was originally a quotation: "It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head" from Spurgeon.

Interestingly enough, in deleting the quotation, the sender got something right (leaving the byline is wrong, wrong, wrong, but we'll let that go). A figure-head is one who holds the position of head of a body of persons, a community, society, etc., but possesses neither authority nor influence (thanks OED). President Obama is, by definition, not a figure-head. As PRESIDENT, he has quite a bit of authority (although far less than Bush thought right to take) and influence in both national and international issues. So, there used to be an irrelevant quotation attached to this e-mail.

Credit where credit is due: Congratulations RWForwarder. Well done. Next time remember to get the author of the quotation as well.

"A disciple of the Marxist Saul Alinsky."

Well, Alinsky is basically the founder of American community organizing so of course he would influence/inform someone like Obama. Interestingly enough, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary philosophy professor (and intelligent design proponent) Bill Dembski is also a "disciple," of sorts, of Alinsky. Dembski assigns Alinsky's Rules for Radicals as extra credit in his Christian Apologetics course. He evidently believes that there are "lessons to be drawn...for Christian apologetics." Careful throwing those stones, RWF writer.

And finally, what is the big deal with the Queen's iPod?? Why do conservatives hate American corporations and their products? These people must really give crappy gifts to their friends and families.

Response to hybrid & following Anon post: I don't think any drinks can be drunk when reading thru this nonsense.

Response to last Anon post: thanks for the update re Saul Alinsky & Dembski. That's very interesting. I agree that BHO was probably somewhat influenced by Alinsky (as I am) but probably more theoretically than directly.

In line w/that, I thought it was rightards who wanted social issues to be resolved through charities and community organizing, so this b.s. about ACORN & Saul Alinsky is just that: b.s. Remember when W kept saying: have charities help the poor? Well, guess what, charities are just another form of community organizing.

And finally, yeah: the Queenie-IPod gift thing: stupid. Like: whatever. As if that's this huge awful slap in the Queen's face. And even it is: so what? Guess what, rightards, she's not OUR Queen anymore... I'm sure Betty Windsor was just fine w/the gift, and in fact, she's probably more annoyed w/rightards who keep whining about it bc it's really bad form. And if there's someone who's the "queen" of "good form," I'd bet it's Betty Windsor.

Keep it real, ya LOSERS!

P.S. what IS with the length of this diatribe anyway. Let's throw in the kitchen sink, too!

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